On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 12:15:08PM -0400, Jimi Malcolm wrote:

> Sometimes when I do this, the routing gateways don't get flushed so that
> it doesn't know how to route packets on the new network.  How do I fix
> this?  To shut down the old network, I simply
> 
> $ pkill dhclient
> $ ifconfig wi0 down
> 
> Is there a better way?  Should I be using '/etc/rc.d/dhclient restart'
> instead?

What I did was edit /etc/rc.conf and switched on dhcp and also added a line
like ifconfig_wi0="media DS11". Secondly, I created a file /etc/dhclient.conf
with a basic setup (see DHCP howto on netbsd site).

Upon reboot, you will see dhclient run and your card get configured
automatically. Now you can do "/etc/rc.d/dhclient restart" at anytime when
you change location to reconfigure the card - works well for me. A nice
feature, when faced with several access points, is that it will pick one
with the strongest signal.

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.jA
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